ry Handling Digital Shots Like A Pro (NAPSA)—If you’re like many people, you think your friends and family ought to be in pictures— and you do your best to snap plenty of shots at weddings, vacations and other social events to make sure they are. But a picture is worth a thousand words only if it’s seen. So what’s the best way to manage, organize and show off your growing library of images? Some tips from a pro may help. Professional wedding photographer Lauren Grabelle manages photos with the help of iView MediaPro. This professional software lets her edit, organize and distribute not only photos but also many other kinds of digital media files. It can hold up to 128,000 separate files and supports over 100 different file types (e.g., wav, jpeg). Editing and Organizing Grabelle has established a workflow that lets her quickly and easily “preserve the moment,” or as she says, “capture people as they really are.” Grabelle first creates a separate iView catalog for each wedding or event she shoots. She uses MediaPro’s Manage Color Profiles option to apply the same color profile to all images so that when she opens them in Adobe Photoshop or another image editing program, they will be rendered “properly.” Next, she sequences the images chronologically and then batch renamesthe files according to a customized naming procedure. Shefinds this batch processing feature a great timesaver to automate an otherwise repetitious and tedious task. Finally, she reviews her photos in iView’s “Slide Show” mode: she advances through the slide show—this mode is like a photographer’s lightbox—tagging each image with a temporary color label to which she has assigned a value, such as “In,” “Out,” or Organizing your pictures by event may help you get more out of family photos. “Needs Adjusting.” She can then choose to display only those images with a particular color label, and then drag & drop them as a group or individually into their respective folders, or in iView terminology, “catalog sets.” Says Grabelle, “Organizing images into catalog sets eliminates complexity and allows you to quickly access your photos in the order that you’ve determined for them—no matter where they’re located on your hard drive or on removable media like CDs or DVDs.” Presenting Grabelle uses iView MediaPro’s variety of display modes to showcase her work toclients.“It has the ability to create QuickTime movies with a Chapter Track. I can create a movie from a slide show very quickly,” she explains. Its HTML feature allows Grabelle to post her work on the Web forclients to view. Budding directors in your family can use the features to create a family Web site or to create a movie, complete with transition effects and music (imagine a Ken Burns-style documentary about your summerholidays). For more information on the software, visit www.iview-multimedia.com. To view Grabelle’s work, visit www.lgphoto.com.
